White Squall is a 1984 song by Stan Rogers, about a young crewman being washed overboard (and presumably drowning) from a Great Lakes ship, due to not following safety procedures. It is the 1st track on his posthumous CD From Fresh Water. The song was also covered by Enter the Haggis on their 2011 album Whitelake. The narrator is an older sailor, who well knows the sudden weather changes upon the Great Lakes: Now it's a thing that us old-timers know, in the sultry summer calm; There comes a blow from nowhere, and it goes off like a bomb! And a 15,000-tonner can be thrown upon her beam,